A meeting organised by the Collaborative Computational Project in Macromolecular  Crystallography (CCP4) and Daresbury Laboratory, 3rd-4th January 2003,The University of York

In 2003, the CCP4 study weekend returns to the theme of experimental phasing, last covered in the 1997 study weekend (Recent Advances in Phasing). At that time, the emphasis of the meeting was on the burgeoning technique of MAD phasing. Six years later, developments in experimental phasing are no less exciting, with SAD emerging as a viable phasing technique, new derivatization methods being developed, in-house phasing methods challenging those available at synchrotron sources, the use of radiation decay as a phasing tool, the phasing of increasingly larger macromolecular complexes and experimental phasing possible from twinned data.

An enhanced programme for the CMSD-sponsored workshop on Single Molecule Fluorescence Detection is available at http://www.srs.dl.ac.uk/VUV/SMD/wkshp.htm or through the CMSD web page http://www.cmsd.info/Fluorescence.htm Additional scientific information about the talks and the speakers is now available on the Web page.